Deborah Moggach

My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.

English Writer

Frankie Ballard

It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.

American Musician

Chuck Palahniuk

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

American Novelist

George Matthew Adams

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

American Editor

Flying Lotus

Whenever it gets a little cold in L.A., it gives me an excuse to light my fireplace. You could stare at that joint for, like, a cool two hours. It's entrancing.

Piper Laurie

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

American Actress

Richard M. Nixon

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

American President

Marilyn Monroe

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

American Writer

Jonathan Scott

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

Canadian Entertainer

A fireplace often symbolizes warmth and family togetherness in literature and film.

Home Comfort

Fireplaces are commonly mentioned in winter contexts, as they are used for heating during cold seasons.

Seasonal Usage

In history, fireplaces were essential for cooking and heating, giving them a traditional aura.

Historical Feature

 and see what your weather stripping looks like if you don't have any you definitely want to add some stripping and if you do check for wear and tear and at the very least replace the worn out sections and closing doors to unused rooms is also a helpful thing because it helps reduce the amount of space you have to heat and cool that fireplace

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 I'm not going to ask you to carry a goat, and I know you don't have any camels. Photography's extraordinarily powerful. It's this language which we now all understand. We truly do all understand it, and we have this global digital fireplace, don't we, but I want to share you with the world, because you are also a tribe.

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...

 so we had a warm fire going in the fireplace. My younger sister and I were sitting next to our dog and coloring with a brand-new box of colored pencils, when Mom said it was time for bed. We'd planned to go up north that night for a weekend of snowmobiling and sledding, but it was already dark and snowing outside,

I stepped out of grief...

 And I followed them when we were here for a couple of weeks. We set up the lavut and we went inside, and you can see the skins that I showed you in the beginning on the shed, they are on the ground there sitting. They set up the fireplace and she cooked coffee. Um, and, she sat down and all she said to me,

Erika Larsen: The...

 and curled up around the fireplace to go to sleep. A wild animal. And I'd like to ask the question. We need to think about this. If it had not been illegal to keep these thylacines as pets then, would the thylacine be extinct now? And I'm positive it wouldn't. We need to think about this in today's world.

Michael Archer: How...

 around social justice. The students wanted a place for cultural exchange. They thought a place for preparing food together could do that. And they wanted to be welcoming to the outside community. They thought a fireplace could draw people in and help start conversations.

Buildings that blend...

 and tear and at the very least replace the worn out sections and closing doors to unused rooms is also a helpful thing because it helps reduce the amount of space you have to heat and cool that fireplace that keeps your living room

 that invites analysis not unlike that required of a patient's symptoms or the scene of a crime. A miniature train whose origin and destination are unknown is emerging from a fireplace, and the smoke from the locomotive

How art can help you...

 substance over the years he changed his mind he noticed that smoke appeared blue when it passed in front of the black soot inside his fireplace but when he went outside in the daylight and watched

Understanding the colors...

 people said what yes absolutely so the first one we were looking at was you walk into a room with a match a kerosene lamp a candle and you see a fireplace which should you light first